FF14 Macro Demonstration - All Dragoon Combos in 4 Buttons
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This still works as of
This still works as of patch 7.05.
There are 10 Dragoon combo skills — 7 for single-target, 3 for multi-target. That's a lot of real estate. But if you'd prefer, here's how you can use macros to make all of these skills pressable with only 4 controller buttons, without any damage loss. This is just one example of practical ways macros can make your play more convenient!
The fundamental idea is that if you last pressed the 2nd skill of your single-target combo, there are only 4 possible skills you might want to press next:
- the 3rd skill in your single-target combo (you are continuing the combo)
- the 2nd skill in your single-target combo (because your first press missed due to range, phase change, etc)
- the 1st skill of the multi-target combo (because you are switching to fighting multiple targets)
- the 1st skill of the single-target combo (for those cases where it's been so long since you last pressed a combo skill that you need to start over)
In this situation, you will never need to use any of the other 6 combo skills because you haven't yet activated the skills that come before them. This means there are no negative repercussions for not including those skills on our crosshotbar at those times. And that's where the macros can help us: each time we press one of these macros, it not only activates a combo skill, but they also pastes the upcoming relevant skills to your main crosshotbar. They do this with the macro lines that look like "/crosshotbar copy DRG 3 DRG 1"; that means it's copying every button from DRG crosshotbar 3 and pasting them over DRG crosshotbar 1.
The 1st skills for both the single-target and multi-target combos are included on every crosshotbar, so there are really only 2 buttons that get changed with every paste. When I press "True Thrust", it pastes "Vorpal Thrust" and "Disembowel". If I then press "Vorpal Thrust", it pastes "Vorpal Thrust" and "Full Thrust". Pressing "Full Thrust" pastes "Full Thrust" and "Fang and Claw". Pressing "Fang and Claw" pastes "Fang and Claw" and "Wheeling Thrust". And pressing "Wheeling Thrust" at that point doesn't need to paste anything, because "True Thrust" is always on the crosshotbar. It works the same way for the other combo branch.
That's why I show 7 different crosshotbars at the end of the video (DRG 2-7 and AST 7); these are the crosshotbars that are being copied to the main crosshotbar (DRG 1) whenever a macro is pressed. Yes, you can actually use the crosshotbars from other jobs/classes like AST as storage for your crosshotbar configurations!
This technique of having access to every necessary combo skill in just 4 buttons works for every class EXCEPT Samurai; Samurai is the only class that has 3 branching paths, so to use this same technique you need a 5th button. But all the others work with just 4 buttons.
I hope that helps explain what's happening!
Oh, and a sidenote: the repeated lines of each skill in the macros basically allows you to queue up your skill by pressing it a little early, similar to normal action buttons. I made a big long write-up about how this works on the official FFXIV forums, so if you want to know more about that you can read about it here: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...
There are 10 Dragoon combo skills — 7 for single-target, 3 for multi-target. That's a lot of real estate. But if you'd prefer, here's how you can use macros to make all of these skills pressable with only 4 controller buttons, without any damage loss. This is just one example of practical ways macros can make your play more convenient!
The fundamental idea is that if you last pressed the 2nd skill of your single-target combo, there are only 4 possible skills you might want to press next:
- the 3rd skill in your single-target combo (you are continuing the combo)
- the 2nd skill in your single-target combo (because your first press missed due to range, phase change, etc)
- the 1st skill of the multi-target combo (because you are switching to fighting multiple targets)
- the 1st skill of the single-target combo (for those cases where it's been so long since you last pressed a combo skill that you need to start over)
In this situation, you will never need to use any of the other 6 combo skills because you haven't yet activated the skills that come before them. This means there are no negative repercussions for not including those skills on our crosshotbar at those times. And that's where the macros can help us: each time we press one of these macros, it not only activates a combo skill, but they also pastes the upcoming relevant skills to your main crosshotbar. They do this with the macro lines that look like "/crosshotbar copy DRG 3 DRG 1"; that means it's copying every button from DRG crosshotbar 3 and pasting them over DRG crosshotbar 1.
The 1st skills for both the single-target and multi-target combos are included on every crosshotbar, so there are really only 2 buttons that get changed with every paste. When I press "True Thrust", it pastes "Vorpal Thrust" and "Disembowel". If I then press "Vorpal Thrust", it pastes "Vorpal Thrust" and "Full Thrust". Pressing "Full Thrust" pastes "Full Thrust" and "Fang and Claw". Pressing "Fang and Claw" pastes "Fang and Claw" and "Wheeling Thrust". And pressing "Wheeling Thrust" at that point doesn't need to paste anything, because "True Thrust" is always on the crosshotbar. It works the same way for the other combo branch.
That's why I show 7 different crosshotbars at the end of the video (DRG 2-7 and AST 7); these are the crosshotbars that are being copied to the main crosshotbar (DRG 1) whenever a macro is pressed. Yes, you can actually use the crosshotbars from other jobs/classes like AST as storage for your crosshotbar configurations!
This technique of having access to every necessary combo skill in just 4 buttons works for every class EXCEPT Samurai; Samurai is the only class that has 3 branching paths, so to use this same technique you need a 5th button. But all the others work with just 4 buttons.
I hope that helps explain what's happening!
Oh, and a sidenote: the repeated lines of each skill in the macros basically allows you to queue up your skill by pressing it a little early, similar to normal action buttons. I made a big long write-up about how this works on the official FFXIV forums, so if you want to know more about that you can read about it here: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...
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